re: gratuitous nostalgia was: re: Looping in prehistory

Title: re: gratuitous nostalgia was: re: Looping in prehistoryI remember playing bass on the street in Cambridge, MA, in around 1980-something, with a Moose battery operated bass amp and a DOD analog delay. Playing at night in the doorway of a bank where the sound would echo around, and playing against the echoes of the delay and the echoes coming off all the marble and concrete, and thinking to myself how cool it would be if there was something that could really capture and repeat . . .